Three charts which explain why the rich get richer and everyone else doesn't: http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-decline-and-fall-of-post-war-liberalism/ … Chart #1:pic.twitter.com/HKKS0id2kT
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@emptywheel Oh, that's important too. I'd be surprised if I haven't written about it, but I'm floundering (I'm sure you know the feeling)
@iwelsh @emptywheel This began much earlier. McCarthyism was all about excluding militant labor. 60s set them back. In 70s project resumed.
@emptywheel that said, it did start before the Fall of the USSR. The opening of China was also hugely important.
@iwelsh @emptywheel Right-wing program aims to take us back before antimonopoly laws were past. 98% of us where poor then, but farm poor.
@DavidWLocke truthiness ...
@megreystroke Far worse. Farm poverty is diff from urban poverty. The farm poor had food and shelter. We will be urban poor this time.
@emptywheel @iwelsh The post WWII progressive era was the bright and shining example that destroyed the USSR. Only the KGB saw it.
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